AP News - President Donald
Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists
convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Trump called it “a
great honor to sign this.” The news of the pardons comes ahead of
Friday’s annual anti-abortion protest March for Life in Washington,
where the president is expected to address the crowd in a video. Read more.
Time - President Donald Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the first of what will be many legal tests. It didn't fare well.A Justice Department lawyer had barely started making his arguments in a Seattle courtroom Thursday when U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour began blistering him with questions, calling the executive order “blatantly unconstitutional.” Coughenour went on to temporarily block it pending further arguments.
CNN - Trump makes false claims about trade with Canada and Europe in remarks to Davos. In particular, he stretched the truth on trade deficits. Read more.
CNN - Experts are trying, and failing, to figure out how Trump's order to bring federal workers back to the office will work. The move was meant to encourage workers to quit, but the government may not have the budget to put everyone in an office or pay travel. It also has existing agreements with unions. More
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